Round Up: What Was Announced at Ubisoft Forward 2024?

If AC Shadows and SW Outlaws review favourably I could 100% see myself buying each at full price. I think both look FANTASTIC, but I rarely pre-order before reviews drop haha

I really liked For Honor and Siege some years ago, so nice to see there's new content should I resub to Plus.

I think the musical acts for Shadows and Outlaw were fantastic and set the tone for some awesome reveals of gameplay. Even though they did look a bit janky, there's plenty of time to perfect the formulas and flesh out the games proper.

With Summer Game Fest, Xbox and Forward I have felt the joy hit old E3 levels of hype and excitement.

PlayStation: Horizon and Astro Bot sounds great, maybe not for me, but excited to read the joy people found in seeing those titles.

SGF:
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: One of my most anticipated games of all time. They way story, action RPG, duelling mechanics, history of eastern Europe and immersive world building goes together in a superb souffle.

XBOX:
Indiana Jones and the giant circle around Earth:
Wow! This was the perfect blend of nostalgic cinema meets gaming. This showcase was the most cinematic game I've ever seen nailing everything it did from Indiana's voice actor to the cartoonish German villain in a scene which was genuinely hilarious to me. I want to watch (read: play) this movie (read: game)!!!

Fable:
I repeat: Wow! Everything about this reveal screams quality and good fun to me. I don't know about the earlier games, so it was this presentation alone that pulled me in.

Perfect Dark:
So cool and Deus Esque in its presentation. It absolutely reeked of tripple-A. Well done👏👏👏

I don't know if I'd even see these conferences if it wasn't for the fact that Sony sort of getting out of their way, leaving me interested to see what else is up, essentially letting Ubi and Xbox have their moment.

A mid showcase

Still waiting for beyond good and evil 2 🥲

They really didn't announce anything but updates. The Outlaws and Shadows demos looked good, though.

Sands of Time remake reboot teaser was a little embarrassing.

@get2sammyb You know Ubisoft haven’t used that version of their logo since 2017 right? 😝

Nothing is interesting for me.
I miss Ubisoft's Imagine and Petz games during Wii and NDS era.

Outlaws and Shadows look great! Good year for Ubisoft.

Ubisoft has fallen harder than almost any other major publisher in my eyes. They used to drop bangers. Now the best they can muster is GaaS updates and trailers for expansions to games that underperformed expectations. WTF are they even doing?

@MFTWrecks what bangers are you referring to? they have been releasing games from the same old, stale franchises for the past 10 years. creed series, rabbids, far cry, just dance and whatever tom clancy related. rinse and repeat. the only breath of fresh air was rayman origins/legends and a few other ubi art games which feels like eons ago now. most of their new IP failed (such as immortals fenyx rising and starlink) so they had to return to the well. the only time ubi was decent was during the ps2 era with the prince of persia trilogy and the original splinter cell games but that was nearly 20 years ago. once they became complacent due to the early success of assassin's creed series, they stopped making games from passion and adopted the assembly line mentality.

Lmao at the people trying to downplay Ubisoft, they literally have a better lineup than Sony for the rest of the year, SW Outlaws and AC Shadows both look awesome tbh.

Honestly a really solid showing. AC and Star Wars look great.

Still no new Rayman game, still no Child of light 2 announcement 🙁

@Porco But that's what I mean. AC used to be events, not cookie cutter releases. Same for Farcry. Splinter Cell used to get people to sit up and pay attention. Hell, the R6 and Ghost Recon games used to mean something.

As you say, maybe it's further back than I realized, but it happened. They've utterly failed time and again for awhile. (Which, I'll note, was not Immortals' fault as that game was solid through and through.)

Just kind of blows my mind they're even still big enough to hold their own conference. Like... their show could have been a blog post/email that ***** was so stale.

They get 1/2 games worth showing and even THOSE are clearly made up of bits and pieces and elements of other games they've been making for ages. May be good, may even be fun... but innovation? Excitement? Doesn't seem to exist at Ubisoft.

No splinter cell remake or division 3 news

Shadows and Outlaws look good, especially outlaws. I can wait for big price drops on AC games, Black Flag was the last I purchased when released on PS3. However Outlaw I want now after watching the video of gameplay.

@MFTWrecks true. it is a miracle they haven't completely folded at this point. take a look at their stock price. they were at 102EUR per share in 2018. they are currently sitting at 22EUR per share — an 80% dip in just 6 years. i think it is a matter of time before they are acquired. they have some potentially valuable IP but need better management structure and to forgoe their rushed development cycles. they would be better off with just one or two creed games per console cycle for example so that they can implement meaningful changes between releases. it's pretty sad that the company is so incompetent that they can't even figure out how to go about the prince of persia remaster/remake. as for beyond good and evil 2, it might take the prize from duke nukem forever as longest development hell cycle in gaming history.